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Place d’Italie and Butte aux Cailles
During this trip to Paris, I have made the Latin Quarter my home. The 13th arrondissement is the neighbor, which includes the lively Place d’Italie and the charming village-like district Butte aux Cailles. This is a good place to go if you’re looking for something relatively uncharted by tourists.
If I Ever Won the Lotto…
Not too long ago, I think it may have been in April or May, there was a lady in Florida in her senior years who won the jackpot, and I mean a HUGE jackpot of several hundred millions…with all of the winnings going to only her. I thought to myself, geez, what a lucky gal!…
The 19th Arrondissement…a new favorite!
Have you ever stumbled onto something that turned out to be an absolutely pleasant surprise? That’s exactly what happened when by chance I came across the Bassin de la Villette in the 19th Arrondissement. I was supposed to go to the Jazz Festival at Parc Floral in the Parisian suburb of Vincennes…
Bonjour de Paris!
It has been said that there are people who are peaches, fuzzy on the outside with a hard pit in the center. Then there are those who are the coconuts- hard shell with a sweet interior. I first heard this saying on an episode of Samantha Brown’s Passport to Europe, where a Frenchman gave her some…